What is interoception?

Hello everyone, welcome at steal. Uh we are the platform for knowledge and reflection of the university. My name is Lara Mo. I work for Steenala and I'm so happy that you're here today for uh our series pre or stimuli or uh if you want to call it that. Um so this is our series about

senses and stimuli. Uh we've had um previous lectures before. They were about uh the nose and our sense of smell and we've talked about pain before. Um if you have missed those lectures, you can watch them back on our YouTube channel. And um we live stream almost all of our our events. So um also now

people are watching at home. Uh I want to say hi to you as well. Um we appreciate you being here with us live or um from behind your computer. Um if you appreciate us as well then please uh hit the like button and uh subscribe to our channel. It will uh really help uh

us to reach our audience. Know that you can ask questions after the lecture uh people here in the audience and also the people online as well via the YouTube chat. So today we have a special guest from uh Great Britain. Her name is Dr. Jennifer Murphy and she works at the Royal Halloway University of London. She's a

psychologist who uh completed her PhD at King's College London in 2019. For her PhD, she studied the measuring technology of introsception and the relationship between introsception, health, and higher order cognition. So, introsception is the sense of what's happening inside our bodies. It is one of the fastest moving areas in neuroscience and psychology. So we

thought we need to have a lecture about this. Um our sensitivity to introsceptive signals can determine our capacity to regulate our emotions and our subsequent susceptibility to mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. Not everyone is aware of this mindbody connection or well attuned to it. For example, there are people who mix up